It is better to be unhappy in love than unhappy in marriage, but some people manage to be both.
GUY DE MAUPASSANTThe only certainty is death.
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Military men are the scourges of the world.
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Champagne- the wine of kings, the king of wines.
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Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.
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Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare.
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Love is always love, come whence it may. A heart that beats at your approach, an eye that weeps when you go away are things so rare, so sweet, so precious that they must never be despised.
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Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms
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In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.
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We are accustomed to use our eyes only with the memory of what other people before us have thought about the object we are looking at.
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To lie about a far country is easy.
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Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
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I love the night passionately. I love it with all my senses: I love to see it, I love to breathe it in, I love to open my ears to its silence, I love my whole body to be caressed by its blackness.
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To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.
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Breathing, sleeping, drinking, eating, working, dreaming, everything we do is dying. to live, in fact, is to die.
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The only certainty is death.
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